Luv

Hey everyone, and welcome to Too Many Books to Count! I’m so glad you stopped by. If you’ve been sticking with me a while, then I sincerely hope you enjoyed last month’s series on the Druid Novels—and that you’re as excited as I am for Anialych: People of Sand to hit shelves! It’s now available for preorder at RAD Writing, so be sure to head over and get yours reserved!

(and if you weren’t here last month, scroll down or click in the side navigation to read all about my Druid Novels and check out some awesome excerpts from my upcoming release!)

But now, we have a new series to get to. It’s somehow already February, which means it’s time to change things up and get into a new topic for the month. And, since it’s February, it makes sense that we should talk about…

Love

I’m about to get super technical on you, right here. Watch.

Miriam Webster’s dictionary defines love as a strong affection for another, rising out of kinship or personal ties. As tenderness felt by lovers. Affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests. Even as an assurance of that affection. It’s also defined as a warm attachment or devotion, and as the unselfish, loyal, and benevolent concern for the good of another.

And it’s one of the biggest themes you’ll ever see in writing—because it’s literally in every story you’ve ever read, every story you’ve ever told, and every story that will ever be. No matter what, no matter if you’re writing a love story or not, there’s always an element of love—because if there wasn’t, most readers wouldn’t know how to read the story. Why? Because we all love, every single day. Our lives revolve around love. It’s just that we don’t often think of it that way.

That’s what we’re going to spend this month talking about.

February is, after all, the month of love. It’s the month we always think about, when we think about love. (I think that’s a little weird, by the way. I would imagine December would be more lovey, what with all the holidays)

Today, as the start of the series, I’m just going to give you a taster of what’s to come this month.

You see, love has many variants—and that’s what I’ll be spending this month talking about. We’ll discuss the many different kinds of love, and even the lack thereof. We’ll talk in detail about everything from romantic love to crippling fear, and discuss why it is that readers love stories that revolve around love.

This month, my dear writer friends, I’ll show you how it’s not anger that’s the opposite of love. No, no, anger is the opposite of happiness. Hate is the opposite of joy. Love, my friends, is the opposite of fear. The two go hand in hand. And once you, as a writer, come to realize that… well, you’ll be able to take a whole new spin on every single story, and bring your readers along for a ride they’d never imagined possible.

The discussion starts on Thursday. I hope you’ll join in the fun!

[love]

{Rani Divine}